Ruger is donating $20 to the USA Shooting Team for each one of these limited edition Ruger 10/22 Takedown rifles sold. The rifle features a blue stock and comes with a red backpack-style case. I quite like the look of the blue stock.
The mainstream tech press are a buzz about a Arfcommer, HaveBlue, printing and successfully shooting an AR-15 with a 3D-printed lower receiver. He printed the lower using a slightly modified model from cncguns.com on a old Stratasys 3D printer. HaveBlue is currently [Read More…]
Chris Costa has partnered with LaRue Tactical to produce the LaRue Chris Costa Edition OBR Rifle. The rifle is engraved with Chris’ COSTA LUDUS trident/net logo and is finished with KG Gun Kote’s Flat Dark Earth. Other than the price, $2750 (about $500 more [Read More…]
The PLA’s paramilitary/gendarmerie police force, the People’s Armed Police, are apprently giving thier old Type 81 rifles a tacti-cool upgrade. The upgrade includes a quad rail, foregrip/bipod, optics and flashlight. Previously, the PLA said they wanted to [Read More…]
This shows the process of making a blank firing replica gun. The video shows the steps from CAD design to the finished working gun. I have said it before, and I will say it again, these Japanese gun designers need to immigrate to a country where they can make the real [Read More…]
Microtech Small Arms Research went out of business a while ago, but their website is back online and the new owners are bringing an updated version of the STG rifle to market. The STG-E4 is patterned after the Steyr AUG. It will be available with either .223 or .300 AAC [Read More…]
Strike Industries sent me a photo of their prototype AK rear sight rail. Unlike their current production model, this version is designed for scopes so the rail is lower down and it features an optional 45-degree angled rail for adding a backup holographic or red dot [Read More…]
Izhmash has designed an airsoft version of AK-74M. The press release seems to indicate that they designed it and will be manufacturing it. Most gun companies just license the name to an Asian manufacturer. The dimensions and weight will be the same as the real AK-74M. [Read More…]
Strike Industries latest accessory is the Cobra Fore Grip. The design allows it can be held in a number of different ways. The MSRP is $25.
Magnum Research has apparently re-engineered their Magnum Lite .22 Magnum rifles. The Magnum Lite are high-end clones of the Ruger 10/22 and chambered in .22 WMR. I am not sure what is new, but here is the press release … The graphite rifle barrel utilizes [Read More…]
One or more supporters of the Free Syrian Army are creating high definition Arabic language gun training videos and putting them on YouTube. They are intended to help train rebel recruits in maintaining firearms such as the FN FAL, which has been imported by the Syrian [Read More…]
I really like the curvy look of the new Damage Industries ECS AR-15 Stock. It comes in six colors. Damage is selling A2 grips and rail panels in all six colors (individually or in a pack). The complete furniture pack is selling for $136.
The daily mail published photos of a Royal Air Force aerial security team deployed in London for the Olympics. The rifle is the British standard Accuracy International L115A .338 LM sniper rifle, resting on a nifty swivel mount. The Benelli M4 shotgun, equipped with a [Read More…]
A keen-eyed reader identified the .50 Cal rifle in my previous post, I believe correctly, as the old version of the Heinrich Fortmeier single-shot rifle. Heinrich Fortmeier designed the Steyr HS-50, which is basically Fortmeier’s single shot with a number of minor [Read More…]
Take a look at the two photo below. The first is the original Steyr HS .50 AM, and the second is the newer M1 version. This is a frame from the video I posted earlier this week showing Iranians using the Steyr HS 50. At first glance they look the same. Looking closely, [Read More…]
A reader email in a scan, from an auction catalog (I think), of a rifle said to be made by George Luger. Apparently Mr. Luger was working in secret on a rifle version of his famous pistol. The description mentioned a German patent No. 4126 of 1906. Does anyone know how [Read More…]
American Tactical Imports are now selling a polymer AR-15 lower receiver called the Omni Lower. It has a MSRP of just $50 stripped, and $130 complete (including M4-style stock). ATI says … The Omni is a multi-caliber AR15 lower made of reinforced polymer. It is [Read More…]
Retronaut has published a scan of the Army M16A1 Maintenance Comic from 1968. It is a wonder they found time to fight the Vietnam war between all that cleaning. I wonder how many of the M16A1 problems were caused by over cleaning and how many bores were ruined by [Read More…]
The INSAS is too easy a gun to make fun of. It is the giraffe of the gun world, a committee designed clone of the AK merged with some miscellaneous FN parts, badly manufactured from cheap materials and forced upon its end user, the Indian Army, by a government-owned gun [Read More…]
Serbu Firearms, maker of the Super Shorty 6.5″ barreled shotgun and the BFG-50 and -50A .50 BMG rifles, has published several videos and photos of their current project, the Typhon 20. It is a single shot, bolt action, very similar to the BFG-50, albeit a [Read More…]
In 2005/06 Steyr sold 800 Steyr AM-50 .50 BMG rifles to Iran. This is the first time I have seen footage of the Iranians actually using them. There was controversy that these rifles had made their way into the hands of Iraqi insurgents, but these rumors were never [Read More…]
Russian Defence Report published new photos of the Suppressed .50 cal VKS sniper rifle. [ Many thanks to Albi for emailing us the link. ]
A reader emailed us this still from the upcoming Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises. It shows the villain Bane and his henchmen. The henchmen show remarkably good trigger discipline, which as Rolf pointed out shows that there was proper supervision and training on the [Read More…]
The Small Arms Defense Journal have published a fascinating review of the mysterious Russian underwater guns. They were able to test fire these guns at a (above water) range. I was expecting these guns to have far less range than the powerful spear guns used by Tuna [Read More…]
No, I am not blogging about an idiot shooting an endangered tiger with a submachine gun! This photo was taken during a training exercise designed to simulate Siberian Tigers escaping from their cages at a Chinese zoo. At this point in the exercise the [Read More…]
UPDATE: See bottom of post. Many of you emailed Google, tweeted and “liked” (8,600 likes) the post I wrote about Google censoring shopping results for guns and ammo. It worked! Google appears to have relented and gun and ammo results are back in the Google [Read More…]
IO Inc. are importing a civilian version of Polish Kbs wz. 1996 Beryl which they call the Archer (Łucznik, as in the Łucznik Arms Factory in the city of Radom where the rifle is name, translates into English as Archer or Bowman). While this version of the Archer has [Read More…]
Troops in the People’s Liberation Army’s Hong Kong Garrison have been spotted with the improved Norinco Type 95-1 rifle. The Type 95-1, first unveiled in 2010, features a better constructed and more ergonomic stock and improved fire controls. It does away [Read More…]
Wilson Combat is now selling AR-15 upper receivers chambered in the .458 SOCOM. If you have an elephant problem, this is the gun for you. The uppers start at $1,295.
Short Barrel: Yes, 7.62x51mm : Yes, Full Auto: Yes, Belt Fed: Yes. I have always loved fully automatic battle rifles, especially the compact HK51. More photos from the Leipers Fork Firearms machine gun shoot here.
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